Strictly come again?

I must admit I am not a Strictly Come Dancing fan but did find it amusing to see BBC suits - without ties so they could look cool and trendy - spouting the biggest load of old cobblers about why three couples were left in for the final as no one had covered the possibility of tied voting.

I don't know which was worse, the fact BBC head of entertainment production, Jon Beazley is actually being paid to spout such gibberish or he actually believed anyone not part of a care in the community programme believed him. There has never been a competition for anything anywhere on earth where the rules have not covered what happens if there is a tie and if the BBC managed it then walking and chewing gum at the same time is beyond their capabilities.

One would have thought that being fined every other day for bogus competitions and phone-in irregularities would mean the BBC might have learned something, but no, another phone vote and another fine mess they get themselves into. John Sergeant's walk-out left the BBC with a couple short and their answer to that particular problem was not a bye or bringing back the last eliminated couple - that was too complicated - no let's keep it simple and just con the public.

A quick look at TV schedules, printed well in advance of the voting fiasco, might hold more truth than the cock and bull explanations of last week. The aim all along was to have three couples in the final with one eliminated in the first show followed by a dance off between the remaining two couples later in the evening.